ZINASU engages NUST officials over strike

ZINASU has dispatched a team of representatives to NUST in Bulawayo this afternoon to engage the Dean of Students on the ongoing lectures strike.

The students body said they will demand a clear explanation on way the forward as they are losing valuable learning time.

Lectures are on an indefinite strike over salaries.

In a statement Zinasu spokesperson Makomborero Haruzivishe condemned government for not paying lectures.

"ZINASU is shocked at the level of irresponsibility arrogance that embodies lack of vision and chauvinism by the Zimbabwean government in light of education and higher learning in our country.

"The move by the Zimbabwean government to abuse critical stakeholders of higher education by shortchanging lecturers in as far as their re-numeration is concerned is a serious act of sabotage to the socio-economic development of our country" he said.

"Lecturers are indeed an indispensable part of higher learning thus their morale is key in ensuring that our fast degenerating and depreciating educational system is revived and remodelled to suit practical technical and information technological trends of the moment and spearhead the country's sustainable socio-economic revival and development".

"ZINASU is shocked with the continued onslaught on higher learning in Zimbabwe. This abuse of lecturers highlights the systematic and continual sabotage of higher learning. The higher education sabotage series begun by the government starving Universities and colleges of sponsorship through the withdrawal of academic grants, loans and the not so effective cadetship system."